GOP stands for Generational Outlook Pathetic

If the future of the Republican Party lies with today’s younger Americans, the outlook from the conservative perspective is not exactly encouraging.

Jonathan Chait EXPLAINS:

How doomed are conservatives? Pretty doomed, if you look carefully at the Pew Research Survey’s close analysis of the youth vote in the 2012 elections. The Republicans’ long-term dilemma has generally been framed in racial terms, but it’s mainly a generational one. The youngest generation of voters contains a much smaller proportion of white voters than previous generations, and those whites in that generation vote Republican by a much smaller margin than their elders. What’s

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If the future of the Republican Party lies with today’s younger Americans, the outlook from the conservative perspective is not exactly encouraging.

Jonathan Chait EXPLAINS:

How doomed are conservatives? Pretty doomed, if you look carefully at the Pew Research Survey’s close analysis of the youth vote in the 2012 elections. The Republicans’ long-term dilemma has generally been framed in racial terms, but it’s mainly a generational one. The youngest generation of voters contains a much smaller proportion of white voters than previous generations, and those whites in that generation vote Republican by a much smaller margin than their elders. What’s

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